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[Ian Campbell]

A number of our users have been requesting more information on how to link web pages to iCONECT. I've included below some specific instructions on how exactly to get this working in your databases. This requires some very rudimentary HTML knowledge.

USING WEB HYPERLINKS THROUGH iCONECT
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1) Any field where you want a hyperlink to appear needs to be specified as an "Image" field through Concordance.

2) The web page link must be written out into the database field using a complete hyperlink string. In other words, a link to www.google.com would need to be completely written out as:

<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Google Web Site</a>

I'd recommend including the <target="_blank"> code so that your hyperlink will launch in a new window... Rather than replacing the record in document view!

If you've done it correctly, iCONECT will display only the "Google Web Site" text as a hyperlink that points to the http://www.google.com web site.


You could also post the web pages locally on the web server, which should work if you are dealing with HTML pages that have some dynamic content (Animated GIFs, etc.) and you don't want to link with the outside internet. You could place files into iCONECT's "HTML" directory on the server and then use the following URL:

<a href="http://www.youriconectdomain.com/html/filename.html">FILENAME.HTML</a>


This will also work with any other type of file, i.e. Word, WP, etc.


If you are trying to capture the pages in a static format (say, to record how they exist at a given point in time), then converting them to PDFs would also work fine. The full version of Adobe Acrobat includes a function (under the "File" menu) that allows you to open and convert on the fly not only a single web page but an entire site. You can then simply link the resulting PDFs to the database records as attached images.


I hope this helps.

--gary

Gary Campbell
Director of Marketing and Web Development
iCONECT, LLC

T: 519 645 1663
E: gcampbell@iconect.com